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Uncovering the Truth about Meriwether Lewis
ISBN: 9781616145057 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a fascinating collection of essays, based on the latest research, exploring the mysteries and controversies surround the life, adventures, and death of Meriwether Lewis.
This is a fascinating collection of essays, based on the latest research, exploring the mysteries and controversies surround the life, adventures, and...
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131,44 |
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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
ISBN: 9780226871837 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and... Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended wi... |
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97,16 |
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Tires Optional
ISBN: 9781432771270 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,63 |
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Daniel Boone: An American Life
ISBN: 9780813134628 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age -- the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms...
The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age -- the westward movemen...
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84,93 |
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The Curve of Time
ISBN: 9781770500372 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer. Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in Haida culture and in nature itself. In this book, she left us with a sensitive and compelling account of their journeys. This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised... |
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94,84 |
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The First Crossing of Greenland
ISBN: 9781108031103 / Angielski / Miękka / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in English in 1890, this book by Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861 1930) recounts the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, an expedition that took two months. Learning from previous failed attempts, Nansen suggested crossing from the uninhabited east to the inhabited west of Greenland, an innovation that proved successful. Nansen's account was translated by Hubert Majendie Gepp and includes an introduction written by the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. Volume 2 begins with the party setting out for the west, and includes...
First published in English in 1890, this book by Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861 1930) recounts the first crossing of the Green...
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369,04 |
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The Adventurer: The Autobiography of Herbert Grove Dorsey III
ISBN: 9781432771867 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Adventurer The Autobiography of Herbert Grove Dorsey III is the story of many adventures on land, sea and air of the protagonist, who started early in life with an abiding faith that the creator would watch over him until the end and that death was merely a transition from the physical experience to the spiritual one. Also, the real goal of life was to gain experience - not material things. Experience develops wisdom, discernment, compassion, talent and abilities that can be taken to the spirit world. Material things must be left behind. This philosophy led the author on a journey of...
The Adventurer The Autobiography of Herbert Grove Dorsey III is the story of many adventures on land, sea and air of the protagonist, who started earl...
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101,96 |
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A Pioneer in Aviation: The Life Story of Brice H. Goldsborough and His Contribution to Aviation Instrumentation
ISBN: 9781462021673 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,63 |
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A Pioneer in Aviation: The Life Story of Brice H. Goldsborough and His Contribution to Aviation Instrumentation
ISBN: 9781462021697 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,64 |
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The Trip: A True Karmal Korn Adventure
ISBN: 9781461158851 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two teenage boys, from their comfortable haven in America's heartland, decide to hitchhike to California during the heyday of the anti-Vietnam War counterculture. They are on a quest to experience the essence of the hippie phenomenon, which they have innocently embraced as their youthful identity. It is a brief snapshot of history, as seen by these young travelers, who are learning about themselves, while finding out how they are perceived through some unexpected, and harsh realities on the road. The journey's events embody the unbridled energy and adventurous enthusiasm of becoming an adult,...
Two teenage boys, from their comfortable haven in America's heartland, decide to hitchhike to California during the heyday of the anti-Vietnam War cou...
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31,89 |
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Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
ISBN: 9780820340593 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of...
Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the P...
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681,85 |
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Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
ISBN: 9780820340609 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of...
Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the P...
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129,07 |
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West of the Parthenon: My Memoir
ISBN: 9781432766443 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the dialogues with Kirandonakis my mentor
Q: "Why I am here, what's the meaning of me being here as a human being, and who made us?" A: "You and I, and all other human beings, and every living thing are here by accident; no one made us. Be a good man because you want to; not because someone puts the fear of god in you, or someone orders you to." From the dialogues with Kirandonakis my mentor
Q: "Why I am here, what's the meaning of me being here as a human being, and who made us?" A: ... |
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84,93 |
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Captain Phil Harris: The Legendary Crab Fisherman, Our Hero, Our Dad
ISBN: 9781451666069 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exclusive, authorized biography of the late Deadliest Catch star, written by his two sons: "outrageous tales of a man who lived without restraint, like a modern-day mythical figure" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the Deadliest Catch star, from his own two sons Prior to his untimely death in 2010, Captain Phil Harris was the larger-than-life star of the Discovery Channel's hit show Deadliest Catch. An ace Alaskan crab fisherman, he led his crew through hurricane-force winds and four-story-high waves, hauling in...
The exclusive, authorized biography of the late Deadliest Catch star, written by his two sons: "outrageous tales of a man who lived without res...
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64,62 |
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An Oil Geologist Abroad
ISBN: 9780865348240 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation of stories was written alternatively and chronologically by a couple who lived on three continents in the decade between 1956 and 1966. Eric Ericson writes of his search for oil in the jungles of Bolivia during communist agitation, the Basque mountains of northern Spain under the dictatorship of Generalissimo Franco, and Nigeria at the dawn of Nigerian Independence and prior to the Biafran War while his wife tells of raising their children in difficult and challenging places and situations. 222 pp.
This compilation of stories was written alternatively and chronologically by a couple who lived on three continents in the decade between 1956 and 196...
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87,23 |
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What Does My Life Teach?: Part 1
ISBN: 9781432769550 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,63 |
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3mph: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World
ISBN: 9780983208501 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Polly Letofsky left her Colorado home and headed west across 4 continents and over 14,000 miles -- by foot -- to become the first woman to walk around the world. In a spirit of adventure, along with the goal of raising global awareness for breast cancer, strangers welcomed her into their homes. The world had embraced her. But in the middle of Polly's journey, 9/11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history, and she found herself navigating a vastly changing world. In 3mph she richly details her journey with humor and honest reflection, the good times and the hardships. Sometimes serious,...
Polly Letofsky left her Colorado home and headed west across 4 continents and over 14,000 miles -- by foot -- to become the first woman to walk around...
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79,62 |
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Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide
ISBN: 9781463533137 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: a 2,740-mile mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico along the rugged Continental Divide. But in the tradition of best-laid plans, Jill's dream starts to unravel the minute she sets it in motion. An accident during a race on the Iditarod Trail results in serious frostbite. As she struggles with painful recovery and uncertainties about leaving a good job to pursue a seemingly impossible pipe dream, her employer hands down "an offer she can't refuse." Just two days before their departure date, her boyfriend ends their...
Jill Homer, a newspaper editor in Alaska, has an outlandish ambition: a 2,740-mile mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico along the rugged Continent...
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67,65 |
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John Ledyard's Journey through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788: The Journal and Selected Letters
ISBN: 9780299042240 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephen D. Watrous provides a complete volume of pertinent information by and about John Ledyard, one of the most amazing explorers of all time. Including Ledyard's own journal, letters between him and others, particularly Thomas Jefferson, and biographical information on eighteenth-century Siberia, Watrous offers an exceptional look at history, geography, and travel. Stephen D. Watrous provides a complete volume of pertinent information by and about John Ledyard, one of the most amazing explorers of all time. In... |
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116,54 |
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After The Wildfire: The True Story of a Phoenix Rising From the Ashes
ISBN: 9780983469506 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disasters happen everyday. We see them on the news, and if it's a big enough disaster, it may be the topic of discussion for several days. But what happens after the dust settles and the news vans move on to the next story? What happens in the weeks, months and even years following the disaster? Some choose the path of victim while others choose the path of survivor. Whatever path is chosen, for the people affected, the story is just beginning. This is the story of one such beginning. In November 2007, a wildfire started by a few ignorant young men having an illegal party in a Malibu canyon...
Disasters happen everyday. We see them on the news, and if it's a big enough disaster, it may be the topic of discussion for several days. But what ha...
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55,67 |
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